Recent content by Staleb

I'm finally making this recipe and about to make my sugar additions into the primary. I realize that the percentage of the table sugar is low enough to not have an adverse effect on the flavor but I was wondering if making an invert sugar would benefit the beer. Since I already have to boil up...

its WLP 380 liquid,and im using it to make a dunkelweiss and hefeweiss, aiming for around 1.055 starting gravity for both

I am planning back to back brew days and I will be using the same yeast for both brews. I was wondering the best way to make a starter for both. Would I make one giant starter and split it, or would i split the yeast at the start and make two starters that way? I wonder how either one of...

Thanks for the advice, I think one of the 2 brews will probably be a pale ale of some sort, i guess im wondering if any of the hops i have would be ok to use for a wit beer...

So I have the chance to make 2 beers before I travel for a month and let them sit and ferment. I am going to order grain but want to use the whole hops I have here. I will be fermenting in the mid 70's (my apartment is warm) and have to buy grains by the pound, so it would be great if I could...

After a delivery from my LHBS I have the following: 10 lbs german pils malt 2 lbs candi sugar 1 lb Light DME (for starters etc) .5 crystal 20L .75 cara munich .75 aromatic belgian 2 oz fuggles whole hops .75 fuggles pellets 2 oz styrian goldings pellets Wyeast Forbidden Fruit 3463 (no WLP570)...

These both sound like great ideas, I think I'm leaning towards the pale ale. I don't need to use all the aromatic, I just wanted to use a good portion of all those left over grains. Looks like I'll grab a couple pounds of pils and some hops!

I have some left over specialty grains from last week that I don't want to let go to waste. I was looking for some recipe suggestions. I've been brewing 5 gallon all grain batches. I have to ferment at room temp which is in the low 70's and I'll be out of town for about a month so this brew...

So I just got the ingredients to make the first recipe for the piraat clone on Friday. My question is what to do with all the extra specialty grains. My HBS sells by the pound so I'll have close to 2 pounds left of specialty grains. Any suggestions? I Im also going to have about an oz of left...